We have recently upgraded our database in order to be able to release our long awaited connected friends feature.
Connected friends enables you to automatically get the newest contact details from your friends. In all address books. Near immediately. And mostly without doing anything.
We will post more about it once it has been released and tested more extensively but feel free to play around with it.
Most of you will see a screen like the one on the right for now but start connecting with users or inviting new friends and you’ll be start to get the hang of it soon.
For those of you unsure whether to use it, just ignore it for now and we’ll be writing more here in the coming weeks.
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The connected friends feature is what Plaxo already has and that is very annoying to me. My “friends” always mess up my meticulously collected contact information. So I disabled the auto update. At Plaxo I now still need to manually approve or deny my friends changes. Most of the time I just deny/ignore them.
I want to be in control/charge of my address book. So Soocial, please do not make this an annoying feature.
Hi Robert, thanks for your comment and your concern. I assure you we feel the same way about our contact information.
We will write a longer post about the connected friends feature but the short answer is that we do not overwrite the contact information you have collected from your friends. Any information your friends might have that they share with you gets added to your existing details. You will not lose information.
You can disable the auto updates per user and ignore/reject any sharing request as well.
We will do our best to not make it annoying – on the contrary it should be useful otherwise there is no point. Any feedback you have is welcome at my email address stefan@soocial.com
This sounds great! Is this using FOAF & XFN?
Maybe I overlook something, but I cannot seem to find a place where I claim my personal contact details. How could you tell what contact is me? Or do you derive that from the connections?
Otherwise I concur with Robert’s comment on leaving the owner of the account in control of accepting (individual) updates, but very much like the concept.
…and I just recalled another thing. Of course, I want to stay in control of what data is shared when connecting to others.
The concept of different contact cards, used by for instance “My Name is E”, is a good idea.